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2008 Program
Session XII
Tuesday, November 25
1:30pm-3:30pm
(NP02) Textual Perspectives on Ottoman Imperium
Chair: Jonathan K. Zartman, Air Command & Staff Col
Darin Stephanov, UCLA–The Autocrat’s Sacred Aura: Religious Aspects of the Shaping of a Monarchic Persona in the Late Ottoman and Russan Empires
F. Sinem Eryilmaz, U of Chicago–The Ambitions of an Ottoman Imperial Scroll
Malissa Taylor, UC Berkeley–Imperial Tradition, Islamic Idiom and Peasant Interlocutors
Heather L. Ferguson, UC Berkeley–A Mercantile World and the Ottoman Empire: Defining Authority in an Age of Absolutism
(NP03) Religious Networks and Alterities in Middle Eastern History
Chair: Noor-Aiman Khan, Colgate U
Ayshe Polat, U of Chicago–Thinking through the Questions in the Late Ottoman Journal Sirat-i Mustakim
Amit Bein, Clemson U–Authority Contested: Ottoman Ulema in the Early Turkish Republic
F. Betul Yavuz, Rice U–The Sufi Saint and His Female Guides: Women in Dhu’n-Nun Al-Misri Anecdotes
Amina Elbendary, American U in Cairo–Social Networks in late Mamluk Damascus through the Eyes of Ibn Tawq
(NP05) Palestine: Histories and Memories
Chair: Yong-Bin Lee, Seoul National U
Yuval Ben-Bassat, U of Haifa–The Ottoman Background of the Early Jewish-Arab Encounter in Palestine at the End of the 19th Century
James P. Reidy, U of Texas at Austin–Arabs and Jews in the Court System of the Palestine Mandate
Tom Hill, Trinity Col, U of Cambridge–The Nakba Commemorations of 2008
Enaya Hamad Othman, Marquette U–Dogma of Womanhood: Quaker Missionary Women in Ramallah, 1886-1914
Scott C. Lesko, SUNY Stony Brook–“Whose Palestine”: Representation of Gender and Nationalist Consciousness in Palestinian Political Poster Art, 1968-1987
(NP25) Ideology and Identity in Iran’s Literary Tradition
Chair: Hadi Sultan-Qurraie, Defense Language Inst
Mojgan Behmand, Dominican U of Cal–Shiite Martyrdom and National Heroism in Simin Daneshvar’s Savushun
Hadi Sultan-Qurraie, Defense Language Inst–M. H. Shahriyar: A Poet of Manifold Identity
Razi Ahmad, U of Arizona–The Construction of Iranian National Identity and Its Reflection in Jamalzadeh’s Works
Yass Alizadeh, U of Connecticut–Iranian Folktales and Their Critique of Ideology
(NP29) Themes in the Contemporary Arabic Novel
Chair: Muhammad S. Eissa, U of Chicago
Louissa Oburra, Cornell U–In Search of a Savior: Walid Mas’ud
Hanadi Al-Samman, U of Virginia–Are We There Yet? Lesbian Identity in Modern Arabic Literature
David DiMeo, US Military Academy–The Subversion of Fictional Space in Mahfuz’s Later Novels
Zaki Haidar, U of Pennsylvania–A Cosmopolitan Mediterranean Encounter: The Case of ‘Ali Al-Du’aji’s Bar Hopping
(NP35) Gender across the Middle East
Chair: Simona Sharoni, SUNY Plattsburgh
Randa I. Nasser, Birzeit U–Feminist Consciousness and Empowerment: Palestinian Women Activists
Asli Zengin, U of Toronto–Sexual Spaces of the State: Spatial Regulations of Prostitution in Contemporary Turkey
May Seikaly, Wayne State U–Globalized Gender in the Arabian Gulf
Ziad M. Abu-Rish, UCLA–Tal’at Harb and ‘The Woman Question’: Religion, Civilization, and Gender in the Wake of Modernity
Shady F. Hakim, Georgetown U/IJMES–‘Re-forming’ Men: Egyptian Masculinities In Early-Twentieth Century Feminist Writing
(NP41) Authoritarianism and Opposition
Chair: Lizabeth Zack, U of South Carolina Upstate
Radwan Ziadeh, Harvard U–Democratization and Political Division in the Middle East
Sarah E. Yerkes, Georgetown U–The Little Engine that Couldn’t?: The Influence of Civil Society on Elections in the Arab Middle East
Mohamed Daadaoui, Oklahoma City U–The Authoritarian State in Morocco: Rituals of Power and the Islamist Challenge
Hesham Sallam, Georgetown U–Political Opposition Cohesion and Internal Party Accountability in the Arab World: The Cases of Al-Islah and Al-Wafd
Cory S. Julie, Georgetown U–Upgrading and Downgrading Arab Civil Society: Problematizing Pro-Democracy Opposition Politics with Insights from Egypt and Syria
(NP56) Conflict and Cooperation across Lebanese Lines
Chair: Stacey Philbrick Yadav, Harvard Academy for Intl and Area Studies
Maren Milligan, U of Maryland–The Impact of Confessionalism on National and Group Level Quality of Democracy in Lebanon
May Farah, New York U–Solidere as Exception: Neoliberalism and the Reconstruction of Downtown Beirut
Katharina Nötzold, U of Westminster–“This Opposition is Illegitimate”: News Framing of the Anti-Syrian Opposition in Post-War Lebanon
(NP68) Conversion in Turkey: Agents and Identities
Chair: Carel Bertram, San Francisco State U
Iren N. Ozgur, U of Oxford–Do Religious Schools in Turkey Cultivate Political Sentiments in Their Students?
Zeynep Turkyilmaz, UCLA–Ambiguous Conversions: State, Missionaries and Kizilbas Communities in the Late Ottoman Empire
Kaley M. Carpenter, Princeton Theological Seminary–Perfect Bedfellows?: Missionary Influence on US Foreign Policy in the Near East, 1915-1929
Lisa DiCarlo, Babson Col–Positioning Turkey’s Newest Christians: “Are You Armenian Now?”
(P001) The Kurdish Question and Its Perception by Turkish Nationalists
Organized by Hakan Yavuz
Chair/Discussant: Hakan Özoglu, U of Central Florida
Michael M. Gunter, Tennessee Technological U–Turgut Ozal and the Kurdish Question
Hakan Yavuz, U of Utah–Re-Framing of the Kurdish Question
Umut Uzer, Harvard U–Nihal Atsiz on Kurds and Islam
(P024) Hatred at the Box Office: The Representation of the “Other” in Arab and American Media
Organized by Maysa Hayward
Chair: Maysa Hayward, Ocean Col NJ
Mounira Soliman, Cairo U–America in Egyptian Cinema: A Socio-Political Reading
Maysa Hayward, Ocean Col NJ–Tracing Arab Identity in American Television
Maggie Nassif, Brigham Young U–Recent Makeovers of the Image of Arabs in Hollywood
Inas Abou-Youssef, Cairo U–Images of Women in Arab and American Media
(P044) The Other Nasser Years: Local Recollections of an Un-mastered Past
Organized by Mohammad Salama
Chair: Mohammad Salama, San Francisco State U
Discussant: Jessica Winegar, Temple U
Mohammad Salama, San Francisco State U–Public Voices: The Role of Radio in Nasser’s Egypt
Kristin S. Tassin, U of Texas at Austin–Enter the Peasant: Local and Statist Historiographies of Modern Egypt
Lucia Volk, San Francisco U–Other Memories of 1958: Nasserite Arabism and the Druzes in a Martyrs Cemetery in Lebanon
(P056) Papyri: Primary Sources and Textual Criticism
Organized by Mark Muehlhaeusler
Chair: Mark Muehlhaeusler, Georgetown U
Dagmar Riedel, Columbia U–Source Criticism and the Transmission of Knowledge in Premodern Muslim Societies
Karim Samji–Hadith and History
Mark Muehlhaeusler, Georgetown U–An Early Compendium on the Law of Inheritance
(P108) Arab American Activism: Historical and Contemporary Trends
Organized by Mehdi Bozorgmehr, CUNY Graduate Center and Anny Bakalian
Chair: Anny Bakalian, CUNY Graduate Center
Discussant: Barbara C. Aswad, Wayne State U
Hani Bawardi, U of Michigan–Historical Modalities of Arab Immigrant Political Action
Louise Cainkar, Marquette U–Arab and Muslim Activism after 9/11: Inclusion without Submission
Maysound Freij, Emory U–Art as Proxy for Politics: Arab Americans in New York City
Aseel Sawalha, Pace U–Palestinian Art Exhibit in Diaspora and the International Social Justice Movement
(P121) Reflections on Tafsir and Islamic Hermeneutics
Organized by Banafsheh Madaninejad
Chair: Kamran S. Aghaie, U of Texas at Austin
Discussant: Hina Azam, U of Texas at Austin
Banafsheh Madaninejad, U of Texas at Austin–Muhammad Mujtahed Shabestari and the Finality of Revelation
Jafar Muhibullah, U of Texas at Austin–Islamic Law and Exegesis
Christopher Stuart Lord, U of Texas at Austin–Am I Not Your Lord: The Day of the Covenant in Classical Tafsir
Alyssa Miller, U of Texas–Historicizing the Qur’an: The Burden of Scriptural Proof
(P124) Mobility across Empires: Muslim Travelers and the Russian and Ottoman States
Organized by James H. Meyer
Chair/Discussant: Virginia H. Aksan, McMaster U
Marina Apaydin, U of Western Ontario–The Roots of the Oriental Discourse in Russia: Naturalization of the Early Muslim Texts
Norihiro Naganawa, Hokkaido U–Challenge and Leverage: Muslim Travelers from the Volga-Urals to the Ottoman Empire at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
James H. Meyer, Columbia U–Rethinking the Intellectuals: Yusuf Akcura and Ahmet Agaoglu in Russia and the Ottoman Empire
Lale Can, New York U–Honored Guests of the Sultan?: Ottoman Patronage of Central Asian Pilgrims, 1865-1923
(P141) Paradox and Periphery in North African Cinema
Organized by Mary Vogl, Colorado State U
Chair: Mary McCullough, Samford U
Discussant: Kevin Dwyer, American U in Cairo
Andrea Khalil, Queen’s Col CUNY–Resistance, Machismo and History in Algerian Film
Brian T. Edwards, Northwestern U–Peripheral Engagements: The Paradox of Contemporary Moroccan Cinema
Sandra Carter, Penn State Harrisburg–Urban versus Rural in Moroccan Film
Touria Khannous, Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah U–Filming the Paradoxes of a Moroccan Youth Subculture: Leila Marrakshi’s Film Marock
(P143) Nationalism and Collaboration in the Middle East
Organized by Stefanie Wichhart and Kristi Barnwell Wellman
Chair/Discussant: Peter Sluglett, U of Utah
Saad Abi-Hamad, Texas Tech U–Saad Zaghlul: A Collaborative Nationalist
Stefanie Wichhart, Niagara U–Iraq’s “Liberal Experiment”: Competing Visions of Democracy and Good Governance during the Second British Occupation, 1941-1945
Kristi Barnwell Wellman, U of Texas at Austin–‘Caught between His Friends and His Enemies’: Hussein’s Dilemma in the 1960s
(RT013) New Demands, New Approaches: Changing Dynamics in the Middle Eastern Language Classroom
Organized by Sylvia W. Önder
Hana Zabarah, Georgetown U
Hanaa Kilany, Georgetown U
Yoel Wachtel, Georgetown U
Farima Mostowfi, Georgetown U
Sylvia W. Önder, Georgetown U
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